Daedaleopsis sp. ? (see update below)

• Spores: white to buff, cylindrical, 9-13 x 4-5 microns, inamyloid
• Growing out of what looks like a cottonwood in Taylorsville, CA
• Pores tubes yellow-tan, mostly round, occasionally elongated
• Cap surface hairy, about 4" across
• Flesh white to tan, soft

Update, November 30, 2007: With the help of Steve Trudell, I finally got the following information from his friend, Jim Ginns:

Your fuzzy polypore on cottonwood (that is its preferred host) is Coriolopsis trogii. The pale tissue/flesh and spores 9-12 um long distinguish it from the very similar C. gallica that has darker flesh and spores 10-16 um long. These are not really significant differences and I would not be surprised if someone showed the two were simply variants of the same species.

Cheers, Jim

Herman Brown 

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specimen #1	close-up of pores
close-up #2 of pores	section of cap showing pore tube length
specimen #2	close-up of cap
detail of cap hair	A younger one
	A bunch
The area where they were found

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